# Picking from another palette

**URL:** <https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 1, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923 "2018-09-01T01:42:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bleubleu81](https://community.aseprite.org/letter_avatar/bleubleu81/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@bleubleu81](https://community.aseprite.org/u/bleubleu81)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923/1 "2018-09-01T01:42:38Z")

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Hi!

I’m evaluating Aseprite to see if it could help me in my sprite workflow. I’m targeting NES so most of my sprite will be 3 colors (+1 BG).

I want to work in 4-color indexed mode and be able to quickly try out which colors (from the full 64 colors NES palette) are the best. What if instead of that dark gray I swap it out for a dark red? That kind of deal.

So i want to be able to have a 4-color palette, and then be able to change one of these colors and pick from the full NES palette. Right now the only way I found how to do so is to have the full palette loaded as a image in a second window and eyedrop from that one, add it to my palette, drag it to the right spot and delete the extra color. Its a bit tedious.

Is there a better way to do what I want to do?

-Mat

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**Author:** ![JJHaggar](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/jjhaggar/32/266_2.png) [@JJHaggar](https://community.aseprite.org/u/JJHaggar)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923/2 "2018-09-10T16:39:14Z")

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There are several palette presets that maybe you can use:

 ![](https://community.aseprite.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1473a9384264bda16b0466dfe952409cbb9ec433.gif)

I hope it helps 🙂

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**Author:** ![dacap](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/dacap/32/10_2.png) [@dacap](https://community.aseprite.org/u/dacap)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923/3 "2018-09-14T13:35:21Z")

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You can try using Copy and Paste, select a color in one palette, Ctrl+C, go to the other file, and Ctrl+V in the entry you want to paste (you can copy and paste several palette entries at the same time):

![copy-paste-colors](https://community.aseprite.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c67811ff7173f3b6b0678932e0a1fe93de89390e.gif)

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**Author:** ![Blirpman\_Art](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/blirpman_art/32/3745_2.png) [@Blirpman\_Art](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Blirpman_Art)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923/4 "2020-04-11T20:09:14Z")

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Has this changed in the last versions? I’m using v.1.2.17 and I can’t seem to be able to copy & paste palette entries.

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**Author:** ![SynthED](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/synthed/32/45_2.png) [@SynthED](https://community.aseprite.org/u/SynthED)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/picking-from-another-palette/1923/5 "2020-04-14T11:37:48Z")

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Hello, have you tried this NES screen tool ?.  
It is not a sprite editor like aseprite, it is to create NES graphics, maybe it makes things easier for you.

[https://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml](https://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6nQALDLjd7w/hqdefault.jpg "Alwa's NES Awakening fan-port Stream #1 Getting started with NES graphics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQALDLjd7w)